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Elegy for Iris
by John Bayley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition★★★★★
★★★★★
4.4|119 ratings
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Customers praise the book's writing quality, with one noting Bayley's nimble prose. The pacing receives positive feedback, with one customer describing it as a moving tribute. Customers appreciate the narrative style, with one review highlighting how it vividly describes the couple's life together.
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"I was living in a fairy story--the kind with sinister overtones and not always a happy ending--in which a young man loves a beautiful maiden who returns his love but is always disappearing into some unknown and mysterious world, about which she will reveal nothing."So John Bayley describes his life with his wife, Iris Murdoch, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the English-speaking world, revered for her works of philosophy and beloved for her incandescent novels.In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a luminous memoir about the beauty of youth and aging, and a celebration of a brilliant life and an undying love. Read more
Product Information
| ASIN | B00F8G6G54 |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Publication date | October 15, 2013 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 2.5 MB |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 220 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1466854246 |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Best Sellers Rank | #224,702 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #140 in Philosopher Biographies #303 in Biographies & Memoirs of Authors #491 in Author Biographies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings |